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Reaction-nonlinear diffusion partial differential equations can exhibit shock-fronted travelling wave solutions. Prior work by Yi et. al. (2021) has demonstrated the existence of such waves for two classes of regularisations, including…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Ian Lizarraga , Robert Marangell

In the present work, we revisit the so-called regularized short pulse equation (RSPE) and, in particular, explore the traveling wave solutions of this model. We theoretically analyze and numerically evolve two sets of such solutions. First,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. Shen , T. P. Horikis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We consider propagating, spatially localised waves in a class of equations that contain variational and non-variational terms. The dynamics of the waves is analysed through a collective coordinate approach. Motivated by the variational…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-16 J. H. P. Dawes , H. Susanto

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with a convection term in one space variable, where the diffusion changes sign from the positive to the negative and the reaction term is bistable. We study the existence of wavefront solutions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

We study travelling wave solutions of a generalised Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation with a non-local diffusion term and a concave-convex flux. This model equation arises in the analysis of a shallow water flow by performing formal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-05 F. Achleitner , C. M. Cuesta , X. Diez-Izagirre

We prove the existence of a continuous family of positive and generally non-monotone travelling fronts in delayed reaction-diffusion equations $u_t(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x)- u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)) (*)$, when $g \in C^2(R_+,R_+)$ has exactly two…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of a reaction-diffusion equation with state-dependent delay. When the birth function is monotone, the existence and nonexistence of monotone traveling wave solutions are established.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Guo Lin , Haiyan Wang

Scalar conservation laws with non-convex fluxes have shock wave solutions that violate the Lax entropy condition. In this paper, such solutions are selected by showing that some of them have corresponding traveling waves for the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Michael Shearer , Kimberly R. Spayd , Ellen R. Swanson

We expand on a previous study of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems in the presence of a reaction rate gradient in the direction of the front motion. We study the system via reaction-diffusion equations, using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

The linear theory of shock acceleration predicts the maximum particle energy to be limited only by the acceleration time and the size of the shock. We study the combined effect of acceleration nonlinearity (shock modification by accelerated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Malkov , P. H. Diamond , T. W. Jones

In the work of Colliander et al. (2010), a minimal lattice model was constructed describing the transfer of energy to high frequencies in the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. In the present work, we present a systematic study of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-25 Ross Parker , Pierre Germain , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Alejandro Aceves , P. G. Kevrekidis

Diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) by relativistic shocks is thought to generate the $dN/dE\propto E^{-p}$ spectra of charged particles in various astronomical relativistic flows. We show that for test particles in one dimension (1D),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 Uri Keshet

We investigate numerically the blocking of two-dimensional bistable reaction diffusion fronts by geometric obstacles. Our goal is to derive quantitative criteria for front propagation in the presence of spatial heterogeneities. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 J. -G. Caputo , G. Cruz-Pacheco , J. Gatlik , B. Sarels

Reaction-diffusion models are often used to describe biological invasion, where populations of individuals that undergo random motility and proliferation lead to moving fronts. Many models of biological invasion are extensions of the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-09 Matthew J Simpson , Nizhum Rahman , Alexander KY Tam

In this paper, the existence of a non-trivial, positive and bounded critical traveling wave solution of a diffusive disease model, whose reaction system has infinity many equilibria, is obtained for the first time. This gives an affirmative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Jiangbo Zhou , Haimei Xu , Jingdong Wei , Liyuan Son

We study the existence of traveling waves of reaction-diffusion systems with delays in both diffusion and reaction terms of the form $\partial u(x,t)/\partial t = \Delta u(x,t-\tau_1)+f(u(x,t),u(x,t-\tau_2))$, where $\tau_1,\tau_2$ are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-23 William Barker , Nguyen Van Minh

Dissipationless hydrodynamics regularized by dispersion describe a number of physical media including water waves, nonlinear optics, and Bose-Einstein condensates. As in the classical theory of hyperbolic equations where a non-convex flux…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

Replacement reactions during fluid infiltration into porous media, rocks and buildings are known to have important implications for reservoir development, ore formation as well as weathering. Natural observations and experiments have shown…

We consider a class of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations also having a stochastic perturbation on the boundary and we show that when the diffusion rate is much larger than the rate of reaction, it is possible to replace the SPDE by a…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-12-16 Sandra Cerrai , Mark Freidlin

We develop a new homological invariant for the dynamics of the bounded solutions to the travelling wave PDE \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l l} \partial_t^2 u - c \partial_t u + \Delta u + f(x,u) = 0 \qquad & t \in \mathbf{R},\; x \in \Omega,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Bente Bakker , Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Rob Vandervorst